Sesame Street 
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| Air date | April 21, 1971 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 2 (1970-1971) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Susan brings a planter of flowers out from the backyard of 123 Sesame Street with the intention of transposing them into a vase. She cues a short break while she gets the vase... |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan returns and finds all her flowers have been picked. Gordon arrives home early from school and Susan bitterly explains what's happened, and that she was planning to put the flowers on the table for their dinner guests to enjoy this evening. They go and see if Oscar the Grouch is behind this. Oscar is making a bouquet himself, but his consists of thistles, stinkweed and poison ivy. |
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Cartoon | O limerick (First: Episode 0146) |
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Cartoon | An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon and Susan ask Mr. Hooper if he saw anybody go past the yard recently. Mr. Hooper recalls Big Bird stopped by not long ago to get a pair of scissors. Suspecting Big Bird is behind this, they head toward his nest, where they find a trail of flower petals. Big Bird reveals he's prepared a surprise for Susan as a way of saying thanks for the dinner invitation - a bouquet of flowers, which he claims he found out in the yard. Susan is too flattered to reveal whose flowers they originally were. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wants Bert to pretend to be mad, but Bert says that he can't, because he has nothing to feel angry about. Ernie asks Bert to pretend that he borrowed Bert's paper clip collection, and lost his favorite paper clip. The thought makes Bert really mad. Bert gets tired out, and tells Ernie that he can't get mad anymore. Ernie makes a confession -- he really did lose Bert's favorite paper clip. (First: Episode 0216) |
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Cartoon | Today's Secret Drawing is a mailman. (First: Episode 0220) |
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SCENE 4 | What has eight legs? Miguel says that four kids grouped together have eight legs, and so does an octopus... |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "Octopus' Garden." (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet man holds up pictures and asks the viewer to find a square in each of them. Cookie Monster soon joins him when the man shows a picture of a cookie box, which Cookie Monster believes has cookies in it. (First: Episode 0143) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon points out different words of the "OP family" around the street, including pop (as in his bottle of soda), mop (being used by Mr. Hooper), top (which Miguel and a kid are playing with) and hop (in a game of hopscotch). He tries to cross the street, when a Muppet policeman tells him to stop, then points out that "stop" is also part of the word family. |
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Muppets | "The "OP" Family Song" (First: Episode 0146) |
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Cartoon | Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated from their group, teaching a lesson in counting backward. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cartoon | Kids guess what two circles drawn onscreen will become. They turn out to be the eye of a friendly monster. |
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SCENE 6 | On the stoop, Miguel rips apart a sheet of paper in half, counting how many pieces there are upon each tear until he has eight pieces. |
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Animation | "The King of Eight" (First: Episode 0225) |
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Muppets | Prairie Dawn invites Grover to dinner, but Grover can't come without Herry, who can't come without Cookie Monster, so Prairie invites all three of them until she learns that they are not cats. |
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Cartoon | Kids hear an L poem. (First: Episode 0198) |
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SCENE 7 | Mr. Hooper and the kids watch Alphabet Bates make a letter L (First: Episode 0031). |
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Cartoon | L is for Lips (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Two brothers, First and Last, sing about how their names affect how they do things. (First: Episode 0134) |
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SCENE 8 | Oscar found the previous song silly, when Susan claims there's another type of song about first and last called "a round." She tries initiating a round of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" where she sings first, followed by Miguel, then Oscar. The grouch instead takes over, creating a round about trash to the tune of "Row, Row..." Afterwards, Susan comments that it's a good thing Gordon and Bob are around to clean up... |
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Cast | Bob and Gordon cooperate to clean up a mess. (First: Episode 0209) |
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Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins and continuo in D Major II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) |
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Cartoon | Jumprope Strawberry L (0:41) |
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Cast | Bob and Mr. Hooper manage to get L in the right position. (First: Episode 0147) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: L for Light (First: Episode 0147) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit plays a sorting game with squares and circles, until Cookie Monster arrives and takes a bite out of the shapes. Kermit is upset, until he tastes one of them, and he joins Cookie Monster in finishing off the rest! (First: Episode 0094) |
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SCENE 8 | Gordon sings the "Sorting Song" using three round balloons and one long one. He then states that balloons can be found in a circus, or at the zoo... |
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Film | A film of kids riding their bikes to the zoo. The kids look at zoo animals. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Celebrity | Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 9 | Oscar's favorite letters of the alphabet happen to be the ones that spell "GOODBYE." |
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